Sunday, March 31, 2019
The most censored episode in American network television talk-show history
Dr. Caligari's Cabinet posted Madonna's infamous appearance on the Dave Letterman Show on this day in 1994. If you are offended by bad language don't watch it - she drops the F-bomb fourteen times. It was every talk-show host's worst nightmare brought to life, like wrangling a toddler who's jacked up on chocolate and caffeine.
Tweet Of The Day
This is what a Raccoon without fur looks like pic.twitter.com/FxCqA3qz6w— 41 Strange (@41Strange) March 30, 2019
Sunday Links
Should we keep our problem dogs and cats even if they make us miserable?
If you don't have cats you might need The Ratapult
3D Printable Radcliffe Camera by Johnny Chan
What's the Least Useful Body Part? Anatomists and evolutionary biologists weigh in.
The Voder was the first device that could generate continuous human speech electronically.
How Did Dance Become A Human Necessity?
Bunnies Gone Bad Why killer rabbits are overrepresented in medieval manuscripts.
The House That Love Built — Before It Was Gone : For Monica Vitti, Eileen Gray and Frank Lloyd Wright, their homes were the culmination of passionate affairs. And the places they ended.
Anatomy of a Perfect Album: On Joni Mitchell's Blue
The Helicopter Bunny Via
Kenyan artist Khadambi Asalache's London house is worth a look.
I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls from Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter Batali is not the first powerful man to request forgiveness for “inappropriate actions” towards his coworkers and employees. He is not the most high profile, and he is ostensibly not even the worst offender. But he is the only one who included a recipe.
These shoes will definitely bring out your inner Goth Via Miss C
Beauty Tips From My Dead Sister
Michelin three-star restaurant French Laundry serves mushroom soup from a bong And yes it was “hand blown by an artisan.”
This little indie film scared the living daylights out of me. How ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Invented Modern Movie Marketing
Tiny apartment custom-built for two generations and their pets is designed to keep a cat and a parrot separated.
“Call Me Maybe,” by Carly Rae Jepsen, slowed down by around 1000 percent. Not sure why.
Podcast: In 1869, two well diggers in Cardiff, N.Y., unearthed an enormous figure made of stone. More than 600,000 people flocked to see the mysterious giant, but even as its fame grew, its real origins were coming to light.
The Brexit Diet: Experts are worried that the true impact of Brexit will leave a very bad taste in British mouths.
Watch the springtime migration from your couch on these 6 Birdwatching Webcams
'Silent Moscow' by French documentary and street photographer Hermes Pichon. Via
This is nuts! One Way or Another (Cat Edition)
Formerly Incarcerated Japanese Americans Organize a Protest Against Family Separation at the Border: Satsuki Ina, who contributed familial artifacts to an exhibition on the detention of Japanese Americans, is also organizing a memorial and protest with 60 former incarcerees.
The 20 Best TV Dramas Since ‘The Sopranos’ Mad Men, West Wing, The Wire and Breaking Bad hooked me. I started watching a few of the other shows mentioned here (Deadwood, Veronica Mars, The Good Wife, Justified) and couldn't muster any interest. Of the rest, The Americans is the only show I'd consider watching.
The workhorse of the kitchen: Everything you need to know about cast iron pans Via
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Tweet Of The Day
Tweeting this just so I can show my 4-year-old in the morning 🐥 pic.twitter.com/zCeUdPKFzA— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) March 30, 2019
Warner Music signs an algorithm to a record deal
Warner Music has become the first major label to sign a record deal with an algorithm. Audio startup Endel uses artificial intelligence to create soundsсapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. They will release 20 albums this year.
Endel Alexa Skill Demo from Endel on Vimeo.
More: The Guardian
Thanks Bruce!
Endel Alexa Skill Demo from Endel on Vimeo.
More: The Guardian
Thanks Bruce!
Deviant Desserts
New York cake artist Katherine Dey of Deviant Desserts bakes custom anatomical cakes that make you think twice before cutting into them.
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Soviet space dog shoes
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You know you want these (I know I do). Belka and Strelka, two Russian cosmopups, were the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive. They hold an important place in space history. Now they are immortalized on a pair of shoes.
Friday, March 29, 2019
RIP Agnès Varda
Belgian-born French film director Agnès Varda died today. Her films, photographs, and art installations focused on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinctive experimental style.I really enjoyed Faces Places (French: Visages Villages), a 2017 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda and photographer/artist JR that follows the pair around rural France, creating portraits of the people they come across.
Carmen Strikes Again
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And the fun never ends. This morning I reached into a drawer to grab some fresh undies and found that the tabletop humidifier, enroute to the floor, had dropped half its load into the drawer. I had three choices: wet, dirty or no underwear. I went back to bed.
I'd prefer it if Carmen used her superpowers for good instead of evil.
Strange Histories
Visual artist Ian Trask stacks images from his huge collection of vintage 35mm slide photographs to create surreal collages. The original slides were compiled by the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
You can purchase Trask's book here.
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Satirical Job Title Generator
Are you a Party Animal of Unorthodox Reasoning and Unconventional AI? Words such as guru, unicorn, and thought leader appear on resumes and LinkedIn pages of designers, and I have absolutely no idea what they mean. The Pseudo Design Titles job generator pokes fun at this baffling trend. Give it a whirl.
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
What Happiness Sounds Like
@aleksandergamme finds something nice in a hole in the ground, after 86 days of near-starvation, while crossing the South Pole.
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Tweet Of The Day
Can hardly wait!
Badger, Toad, Mole and Ratty find themselves in serious trouble when they return to the Willows! Join us for a #WilderFuture and play your part in nature’s recovery: https://t.co/J0MRBrvTkE pic.twitter.com/tzIRRCsrfJ— The Wildlife Trusts (@WildlifeTrusts) March 28, 2019
An Homage To Twelve-Tone Dissonance
The twelve-tone technique is a method of musical composition devised by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg that uses all 12 notes of the chromatic scale without assigning a hierarchy of importance. All 12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in a key. The music is weird and so is this video.
Stunning Photorealism Set In A Futuristic Alien Landscape
To demonstrate the stunning photorealism in Unreal Engine 4.21, Quixel produced “Rebirth” a cinematic real-time short set in Iceland.
The short was created by three artists at the company known for its photogrammetry expertise using its Megascans 2D and 3D physically-based asset library.
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The short was created by three artists at the company known for its photogrammetry expertise using its Megascans 2D and 3D physically-based asset library.
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GauGAN Turns Doodles Into Photorealistic Masterpieces
A deep learning model developed by NVIDIA Research acts like a smart paintbrush by taking rough sketches and converting them into realistic images.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Graham-Paige Fire Chief’s Car
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This unidentified fire chief is standing outside Station No. 2 on Anaheim St, Long Beach with his 1929 Chrysler Model 629. The station was destroyed in the devastating 1933 earthquake.
More about the car here
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Runaway
This award winning animation by Canadian director Cordell Barker takes place aboard a driverless, out-of-control train.
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, 1914
This photograph taken in 1914 is part of August Sander's project titled People of the 20th Century, a series of diverse portraits that gives a cross section of 20th century society. But these young men weren’t farmers.
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Tweet Of The Day
Fabulous thread:
Back in 1896 men didn’t call women sluts.— Article Group (@ArticleGroup) March 24, 2019
They called them “bicycle face”.
Why? Because bicycles helped women 💪 make their own dating choices.
IOW bikes were the first dating app. That scared men.
Let’s talk about it.
Hold on to your bodices people, THIS IS A THREAD
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Every Way To Cook An Egg
Bon Appetit assistant food editor Amiel Stanek knows a lot of ways to prepare an egg.
Via Geekologie
Via Geekologie
The growth of Canada's cities since Confederation.
Canada's population count in 2016 was 10 times greater than in 1871, when the first census after Confederation recorded 3.5 million people in Canada. By 1967, when Canadians were toasting 100 years since Confederation, that number had grown to 20.0 million. On Census Day, May 10, 2016, 35,151,728 people reported living in Canada. The Twitter pic below shows patterns of population growth across the country since Confederation.
Made this: Canada’s Greatest Cities, 1867-2017. Enjoy, #Canada ! pic.twitter.com/WUNP0PzhdD— Kerry Stevenson (@krst) March 24, 2019
The Dance Of The Pendulums
Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion.
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Tweet Of The Day
Read more here⚠️🐱Mind the cat! This feline family were rescued from Moorgate station, luckily, they were all ok apart from a small cut on Mum's nose. Our Harmsworth Animal Hospital have called them cute underground inspired names, check them out here: https://t.co/QugIheSo8c pic.twitter.com/12eLogI4aG— RSPCA (England & Wales) (@RSPCA_official) March 25, 2019
These Dogs Protect Mother Earth
Based in Montana, Working Dogs for Conservation trains rescue dogs to sleuth out everything from illegal poaching to invasive species.
Meet the Super Dogs Protecting Mother Earth from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
Meet the Super Dogs Protecting Mother Earth from Great Big Story on Vimeo.
Beautiful Design
Art Nouveau glass and sterling silver trivets made by Webster, circa early 20th century.
Collectors Weekly
Monday, March 25, 2019
Replica of National Lampoon Family Truckster Could Be Yours
This 1981 Ford LTD Station Wagon re-creation is based on the iconic vehicle in"National Lampoon's Vacation". It will be up for bidding at the Barrett-Jackson automobile auction in Palm Beach, Florida on April 11th - 13th.
More:Geekologie
Tweet Of The Day
Remembering Sweet Emma Barrett, born on this day in 1897 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here she is singing "My Jelly Roll" in 1963. Filmed at @PresHall by Dietrich Wawzyn and Chris Strachwitz. pic.twitter.com/4f7pkO5yqS— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) March 25, 2019
Bubbletecture
Bubbletecture, a new book by architect Sharon Francis, features more than 200 examples of inflatable architecture and design from the 1960s until the present.
More here
Decomposition Cupcake
Cake artist Claire Ratcliffe baked this “Five Stages” cupcake for the Edible Body Farm exhibit which used yummy treats to explore the topic of bodily decomposition. Is it as delicious as it looks? That 'remains to be seen'.
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Happy Våffeldagen!
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Shadowology
Vincent Bal is a shadowologist and filmmaker from Belgium. He uses random objects and light to create shadow doodles
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Car #288
We've been doing some renovations on our century home and have found lots of stuff in the walls: old bottles, clothing, newspapers, children's shoes and more. You know what we didn't find? A trolley car.
Last year these guys unearthed an original Trenton tramcar built into a house they were renovating in Hamilton, New Jersey. They peeled back drywall and the year 1912. Behind another wall was a door.
They have launched a GoFundMe campaign to restore the car.
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Last year these guys unearthed an original Trenton tramcar built into a house they were renovating in Hamilton, New Jersey. They peeled back drywall and the year 1912. Behind another wall was a door.
They have launched a GoFundMe campaign to restore the car.
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Mars Habitat
NASA held $3.15 million competition to build a 3D printed habitat for deep space exploration, including the agency’s journey to Mars. The multi-phase challenge is designed to advance the construction technology needed to create sustainable housing solutions for Earth and beyond. Mars Habitat is the final film for the Mars Habitation competition.
Mars Habitat - Full Film from LightField London on Vimeo.
Mars Habitat - Full Film from LightField London on Vimeo.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
#FloridaManChallenge
#FloridaManChallenge: Go to Google and type in Florida Man and your birthday ad see what comes up. Apparently on May 22 (my birthday) he dashed children's illusions about their parents forever:
Sunday Links
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The House of The Future: Charles Schridde's Stunning 1960s Motorola Ads
Cannabis etiquette It's the toke of the town!
Chambers of Secrets: Sets and scenes from the Harry Potter series are reimagined as miniature cardboard models by architecture students from the Melbourne School of Design.
Pegasus by Jean-Michel Basquiat, "the Most Beautiful Drawing Ever"
The Parrot Whisperer of Washington, D.C.
The figure in Edvard Munch's "The Scream" isn't actually screaming
Terrible Things Happening in Cold Places Via
Next Best Thing: In 2015, when startup founder Roman Mazurenko died in a car accident, his best friend spent three months gathering his last text messages and created an app that would let her speak with him again.
7 Thrillers Set in Psychiatric Hospitals and Asylums
Do your kids turn up their noses at fruit and veggies? Feed them these Bug Snacks. They'll love them.
Meet Vermeer in augmented reality
24 Common Cognitive Biases: A Visual List of the Psychological Systems Errors That Keep Us From Thinking Rationally
The Museum of Everyday Life
Morning Commute In Salekhard, Russia
Oxford English Dictionary adds new entries: chuddies, jibbons and fantoosh
This house! Residence Le Nid by Anne Carrier overlooks Saint Lawrence River
CBC News: A group of researchers at the University of Ottawa is using Google Street View to spot gentrification in the city's neighbourhoods.
The Hess Triangle, a cheeky symbol of New York City’s defiant nature.
Salvador Dalí’s champagne lamps go on display
Why Are Pockets So Rare in Women's Clothes? Thanks Bruce!
China's new social media craze: Praising groups
This Proposal Photo Was Shot Using a Drone
Saturday, March 23, 2019
A Map of Fairyland (c. 1920)
Here is a handy map for your next visit to Fairyland:
“An anciente mappe of Fairyland : newly discovered and set forth,” by Bernard Sleigh was published in London around 1920 as an atlas of the world of common English fairy tales. It is part of a booklet accompanied by text in the digitized collection of The Library of Congress .
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What’s Wrong With This Diorama?
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| Andrea Mohin/The New York Times |
This diorama at the American Museum of Natural History was amended with annotations that allow museumgoers to see the historical inaccuracies it perpetuates. It depicts an imagined 17th-century meeting between Dutch settlers and the Lenape, an Indigenous tribe inhabiting New Amsterdam, now New York City. Instead of replacing the diorama, the museum has posted explanations of what was wrong with the portrayals on the glass.
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More: The New York Times
The World's Longest Art Exhibit
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| Photo: Visit Stockholm |
I've got a trip to Stockholm tentatively scheduled for September. The Tunnelbana Gallery is one of the things I'd like to see.
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Petra, the talkative Congo African Grey
Petra is a very sociable parrot. When her family isn't around she spends her time chatting up a storm with Alexa (Amazon Echo).
Read Petra's BLird (Bird Blog)
Read Petra's BLird (Bird Blog)
Friday, March 22, 2019
1929 Avant-garde Film Classic
New Zealand-born artist Len Lye’s first film, Tusalava (1929) was inspired by London's nascent experimental film scene and Lye’s interest in Maori, Aboriginal and Samoan art. Composed of 7,000 hand-drawn images, the abstract animation synthesises modern and ancient art as it depicts simple life forms emerging, evolving and vying for supremacy.
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Reunions
40 years ago Chris Porsz took photos of people in his hometown of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Decades later he set out to reunite the characters who appeared in his early work. He tracked them down and photographed them again, often in the same location.
Dog and Tina
Original 1985 – Reunion March 2015
Double Bubble
Original 1980 – Reunion April 2012
Dog and Tina
Original 1985 – Reunion March 2015
Original 1980 – Reunion April 2012
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